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| Louis-Philippe… Louis-Philippe Carignan

Where to Measure Throughput in the Sprint Backlog

August 17, 2020
With the launch of the Kanban Guide for Scrum teams in 2018, its 4 flow metrics have gained more popularity amongst the Scrum community.
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| Louis-Philippe… Louis-Philippe Carignan

Agile Forecasting Techniques for the Next Decade

March 16, 2020
The Old Farmer’s Almanac is the oldest continuously published periodical in North America. It was first published in 1792 by Robert B. Thomas who wanted an almanac “to be useful with a pleasant degree of humor. Many long-time Almanac followers claim that its forecasts are 80% to 85% accurate. 
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| Louis-Philippe… Louis-Philippe Carignan

Product Backlog Workflow

March 4, 2020
The emergence of the Kanban Guide for Scrum teams has given new metrics and practices to Development Teams on how they can augment their Sprint Backlog to manage their work.
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| Louis-Philippe… Louis-Philippe Carignan

Throughput-Driven Sprint Planning

February 17, 2020
This is a post explaining how to do throughput-driven sprint planning using throughput and Service Level Expectation (SLE).
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| Louis-Philippe… Louis-Philippe Carignan

When Story Points aren’t Enough…

December 16, 2019
If there is one trend that has surpassed Agile in our profession over the last five years, I would say DevOps would be a good culprit. As we’ve seen an explosion of tools to implement CI/CD in our Scrum teams, we’ve also seen some of our Agile practices being challenged by this new reality.
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| Louis-Philippe… Louis-Philippe Carignan

The Agile Museum

December 10, 2019
I’ve been teaching the class Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) for the last year now and I strongly believe parts of its content will send some of our current practices and books to the Agile museum.
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| Louis-Philippe… Louis-Philippe Carignan

Bye Bye Velocity. Hello Throughput.

January 14, 2019
The Professional Scrum with Kanban (PSK) course has now been out for more than 6 months at Scrum.org. As one of the first few trainers who wanted to teach this course when it came out, I find it is a great way to combine the Scrum framework with Kanban as a strategy to deliver value to your customer.
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| Louis-Philippe… Louis-Philippe Carignan

Downsides of DevOps

November 12, 2018
DevOps is all over the place nowadays. The toolset is exploding. Companies are offering a large variety of products to suit the needs of customers.
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| Louis-Philippe… Louis-Philippe Carignan

The C Word in the Scrum Guide

October 22, 2018
I have an important favor to ask to Scrum practitioners who are asking their team to commit themselves to their sprint backlog at sprint planning.
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| Louis-Philippe… Louis-Philippe Carignan

The positive retrospective

December 1, 2015
According to the Scrum guide, sprint retrospectives are "an opportunity for the Scrum Team to inspect itself and create a plan for improvements to be enacted during the next Sprint."
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| Louis-Philippe… Louis-Philippe Carignan

My personal "Stop doing" list

May 11, 2015
In his book Good to Great, author Jim Collins asks the reader:
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| Louis-Philippe… Louis-Philippe Carignan

A Scrum Master toolbox (literally)

April 4, 2015
When reading the role of the Scrum Master in the Scrum guide, one of the core competencies is to facilitate meetings.
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| Louis-Philippe… Louis-Philippe Carignan

Counter pessimism

January 31, 2015
A team that I work with decided one day to improve the general mood in the team. A member of the team (David) bought the Snakes & Ladders board game for the team.
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| Louis-Philippe… Louis-Philippe Carignan

Monkeys for managers

October 19, 2014
I have found that coaching managers is a different approach than with Scrum teams. While you are (most of the time) involved directly with the Scrum Team as a Scrum Master, managers are less accessible.
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| Louis-Philippe… Louis-Philippe Carignan

Dont fall in love with ...

October 12, 2014
Your plan. It will change anyway. Your detailed architecture. It should emerge. Your code. It will be refactored. Your document. It doesn’t compile anyway.
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| Louis-Philippe… Louis-Philippe Carignan

The wall session practice

September 14, 2014
I work in the public sector as an Agile coach. One of the question I often get asked is how to estimate the size of a new project, or a new delivery, as we need to determine a budget before executing it.
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| Louis-Philippe… Louis-Philippe Carignan

That much fuss about TDD

September 4, 2014
One of the important event in Agile this year seems to be an argument around Test Driven Development (TDD). More precisely, high profile personalities in our industry debated against the statement "TDD is dead".
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| Louis-Philippe… Louis-Philippe Carignan

Agile, is it just a delivery mechanism?

August 27, 2014
As a Agile coach, I refer to a few tools to help me think about where my Scrum teams should go next on their path to Agility.
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